PURPOSEThe purpose of the conference is to bring together academics and professionals from all over the world to discuss the themes of the conference:

1. Space Exploration and Global Problems of Humanity and Modern Age.2. Planned Profile for the International Global Aerospace Monitoring System (IGMAS)3. Technologies, Methods and Means for the Global Aerospace Monitoring of Natural and Man-Made Disasters and Emergencies.4. Common Information Environment of IGMAS.5. Partnership and Co-operation for Use of IGMAS Facilities.6. Education and Training within the Frame of Space Exploration and Global Problems of Humanity.

The special focus of Symposium will be:

1. Modern strategy of an outer space exploration in interests of the states of the North Europe and Baltic Sea region (ecology preservation, safety of transportation of cargoes and preparation of experts in the field of space activity and applied use of its results, the prevention of emergency situations of natural and man-caused character)

2. The project of Concept IGMAS:• The purposes, problems, requirements, shape, structure;• Methods, technologies and means of forecasting of emergency situations of natural and man-caused character;• Uniform information field IGMAS: use of navigating and telecommunication resources of system in interests of the decision of humanitarian problems (liquidation of consequences of force majeure, remote training, medicine of accidents and another);• Political, legal, organizational, financial and technical aspects of creation and use IGMAS.

3. The organization of scientific researches with a view of technical realization of Concept IGMAS.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGESEnglish and Russian will be the official languages of the Conference.

Abstracts (about 600 words in length) submitted for review and papers should be in English and, should present a clearand concise view of the motivation of the subject, give an outline, and include information on all authors (the fullname, affiliation, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author).Submitted abstracts will be reviewed. Accepted and invited papers will be published in the Proceedings of theconference and in the journal “Transport and Telecommunication” (ISSN 1407-6160).

Instruction for preparing of the papers can be found on the conference WWW page: http://spacesystems.tsi.lv.

VENUERiga is the capital of the Republic of Latvia. Thanks to its geographical location, Riga has wonderful trade, culturaland tourist facilities. Whilst able to offer all the benefits of a modern city, Riga has preserved its historical charm. It'sespecially famous for its medieval part – Old Riga. Old Riga still preserves many mute witnesses of bygonetimes. Its old narrow streets, historical monuments, organ music at one of the oldest organ halls in attract guests of ourcity. In 1998 Old Riga was included into the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage.ACCOMMODATIONA wide range of hotels will be at the disposal of participants of the conference and accompanying persons(http://eng.meeting.lv/hotels/latvia_hotels.php).